Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Several reasons...

... push me to lead your ears and eyes to Aphex Twin. Tonight, after spending quite some time to find new, to me unknown electronic music, I stumbled upon the song Windowlicker.
The result is... weird.
Why?  I can't really tell. I am mostly certain that not just a few people will dislike the track or at least not appreciate it as much as I think I do.
You probably think now "What's wrong with that song?"
First of all, I did not just listen to it, I watched the music video. And that video is totally weird and somewhat creepy. Richard James aka Aphex Twin looks like a pimp and has a lot of "hoes" in his car.
Well, that's standard in so many music videos you'll say and you're right. But this is different and I won't tell you because you have to see it for yourself.
It's creepy; it's strange; but hillarious at the same time. Last one's probably the reason I like it ;-)

Sound
As I mentioned before I was searching for electronic music. This song is pretty progressive and experimental. He uses a lot of pitched voices to create the sounds beside of his drum kit. Overall, there are almost no similar cycles throughout the roundabout 6 minutes it takes. That's awesome!
But it needs attention and is quite hard to listen to it alongside for  this song is simply an intelligent one. Even one may not really like it that much, I think you should at least deal with such kind of music if think of yourself as somebody who is aware of music.

I am quite curious what you think about it!
And don't skip anything ;-)

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker



Wednesday, August 8, 2012

There are good musicians everywhere,...

...even in game developing studios!

What I'm going to show you now, is taken from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines which was released in 2004 and also came with several licensed songs.
However, the title Vesuvius was composed by Rik Schaffer and was named after a brothel in the fictious Hollywood of the game.
Of course, the style of this song is meant to fit into such atmosphere. And I must say, Rik did his job very well. This track makes you comfortable, forces you, in a soft way, to lean back and relax.
It sets the basic conditions to pleasure. It is cool.
Now this isn't a song you listen to while you're on the road or like to party hard.
So if you don't run a brothel, a chill-out lounge or anything similar, this is a song to enjoy at home and at night with dim light.

And together it'll be even better, if you know what I mean ;-)